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Art History 125 - Art in the Age of Michelangelo

Focuses on the art of the 1500s in Italy, an era comprising the High Renaissance and Mannerism, perhaps the single most influential period in Western art after classical times.

Primary Sources

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari (Translator); Julia Conway Bondanella (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); Peter Bondanella (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
Call Number: N 6922 .V2213 1998
ISBN: 9780192834102
Publication Date: 1998-07-16
Venice and Vitruvius by Margaret Muther D'Evelyn
Call Number: NA 1121 .V4 D48 2012
ISBN: 9780300174519
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Civilization of the Italian Renaissance by Kenneth Bartlett
Call Number: DG 445 .C57 2011
ISBN: 9781442604858
Publication Date: 2011-06-30
The Italian Renaissance by Kenneth Gouwens (Editor)
Call Number: DG 445 .I79 2004
ISBN: 0631231641
Publication Date: 2003-07-09
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Thomas V. Cohen
Call Number: DG 445 .C64 2004
ISBN: 0226112586
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Behind the Picture by Martin Kemp
Call Number: N 6915 .K46 1997
ISBN: 0300071957
Publication Date: 1997-12-22

More Primary Sources

Renaissance Art Reconsidered by Michael W. Franklin (Editor); Kim W. Woods (Editor); Carol M. Richardson (Editor)
Call Number: N 6370 .R375 2007
ISBN: 9781405146401
Publication Date: 2007-02-12
A Documentary History of Art by Elizabeth G. Holt
Call Number: N 5303 .D6 1981
ISBN: 0691003335
Publication Date: 1982-03-01
Fashion by Peter McNeil (Editor)
Call Number: GT 580 .F37 2009
ISBN: 1847882927
Publication Date: 2009-03-15
Venice by David Charters; Brian Pullan (Editor); David Chambers (Editor)
Call Number: DG 677.85 .V35 2001
ISBN: 9780802084248
Publication Date: 2001-03-30
Italian Art, 1400-1500 by C. H. Gilbert
Call Number: N6915 I78
ISBN: 0135079470
Publication Date: 1979-09-01
A documentary history of art.
Call Number: N 5303 H762 1957
Letters by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Call Number: N6923 B9 A23
Literary sources of art history; an anthology of texts from Theophilus to Goethe.
Call Number: N5303 H763
Northern Renaissance art, 1400-1600; sources and documents.
Call Number: N 6370 S8